Product Development

[Video] IFT prepares food, beverage professionals for the future of AI with educational courses

30-Nov-2023 By Ryan Daily

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is readying food and beverage professionals for the future of AI with several educational courses designed to provide instructions and insight on getting started with AI and how it might impact the industry moving...

Senspire streamlines new product development with Flavor Studio platform

22-Nov-2023 By Ryan Daily

Software company Senspire demonstrated its all-in-one product development platform, Flavor Studio, at the Private Label Manufacturer Association event earlier this month, showing how product developers can use digital tools to launch products faster,...

Futureproofing the Food System

How do consumers’ perception of healthy drive their purchase habits and product development?

07-Nov-2023 By Deniz Ataman

What does it mean to eat healthy? A survey by the International Food Information Council (IFIC) finds that 74% of consumers believe that food and beverage choices are interconnected with mental and emotional well-being, along with other insights that...

FoodPairing shares how AI can speed up product development

20-Oct-2023 By Ryan Daily

Food and beverage companies increasingly are leveraging AI tools to streamline product development and launch products to stay ahead of consumer trends and challenges, Bernard Lahousse, co-founder and go-to-market lead for FoodPairing, said during a webinar.

Mamay creates a lexicon for taste, releases Sweetness Desktop for digital food, bev development

05-Jul-2023 By Ryan Daily

Israel-based Mamay Technologies is translating the abstract nature of our sense of taste with its Gage platform, which can run quick formulation simulations to determine the sensory properties of food and beverage prototypes and assign it a number based...

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Aromyx digitizes taste, smell to speed innovation, cut R&D costs for food

26-Apr-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Taste and smell are fundamental to how consumers experience food and beverages, but most tools for understanding and measuring these senses – including a highly trained human nose – are subjective, imprecise, and expensive making it difficult to cost-effectively...

Investing in the Future of Food: Bridge the ‘valley of death’ with small-scale venture validation

28-Oct-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

While companies of all sizes understandably want a guarantee that a new product or innovation will succeed before investing heavily in large-scale production and marketing, the CEO of Pilot Lite Ventures warns that this way lies the valley of death.

Beverage alliance IncuBev provides one-stop-shop for beverage brands navigating ‘the choppy go-to-market waters’

02-Oct-2020 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Four companies have teamed up combining their beverage commercialization expertise to launch IncuBev, a multi-phase service offering to assist beverage brands with the challenges of product development and commercialization.

Investing in the Future of Food: Mason Dixie drives ‘explosive’ growth with data-driven decisions

15-Apr-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

While there is something to be said about following your gut as an entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of Mason Dixie Biscuit Co. advises that following the data often is a more reliable strategy for sparking retailer interest and launching products that...

Special Edition: The Female Consumer

VOX POP: What should product developers, marketers keep in mind when addressing the female consumer? Women in the industry weigh in

25-Jul-2019 By Adi Menayang & Mary Ellen Shoup

From publicists to brand founders, R&D scientists to regulatory affairs managers, we spoke with some women in the nutrition industry about the current landscape of marketing and developing products for women—in what aspects is the industry excelling,...

Gluten-free taste improvements spur market growth

22-Jul-2013 By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

The gluten-free foods market has continued to grow as new ingredients and technologies have significantly improved the taste of products, according to experts at the Institute of Food Technologists’ annual meeting.

Brand awareness vital to business success

22-Jul-2005

If food manufacturers can achieve a better understanding of how
consumers interact with brands, then product development could be
less of a hit-and-miss affair, writes Anthony Fletcher in New
Orleans.